Mikael Minasyan: Kocharyan and Pashinyan teams have led Armenia  towards catastrophe since 2021

ArmInfo.  Mikael Minasyan, former Armenian Ambassador to the Holy See and son-in-law of the third President of  Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan,  asserts that all his mistakes are purely human, unlike those who supported and  continue to support Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and  the second  President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan. 

" I didn't surrender my homeland like Nikolists; nor did I create a  fertile geopolitical ground for revolution like Kocharyan's  supporters. In the summer of 2020, when everyone was celebrating the  'victory in the heroic July battle' and revolutionary euphoria was at  its peak, I tried to awake Armenians to an impending catastrophe in  an uncomfortable and very alien format. The 'kitchen' format was a  mistake -attention should have been directed to as many people as  possible, to talk to them. It was difficult, but everyone chooses  their own path," Minasyan wrote on his Facebook page.

"The accusers are the ones who stood next to Nikol and blocked the  streets. These same people are now eagerly searching for those who  helped bring Nikol to power. Look at my background, you will not find  Nikol's parents and breadwinners mentioned. In 2020, I spoke about  everything with facts: about old AK assault rifles bought in Jordan  at ten times the market price, about SU-26 self-propelled artillery  units without missiles, which the revolutionaries presented as  evidence of closing the "shameful page of weapons of the 80s." I  tried to warn people caught up in revolutionary euphoria that these  deals are a bluff that will cost thousands of lives, since the slogan  "Artsakh is Armenia and that's it" had already been heard,  negotiations had failed, and a countdown had begun. Six years have  passed since 2020. During these years, tragic and bloody events have  occurred one after another: defeat in a treacherous war, the final  capitulation of Artsakh, the decline of a thousand-year-old   civilization of Artsakh, the surrender of the interstate road in  Goris, the loss of positions in Syunik and Jermuk, and the surrender  of villages in Tavush. The list goes on.

Against the backdrop of these great tragedies, in 2021, Nikol and his  supporters were legitimized and revived, which finally resolved the  Karabakh issue. The political landscape  was divided between  Kocharyan's and Nikol's supporters, and because of this split, the  vast majority of people "depoliticized" themselves, so as not to have  to choose between these two unfavorable options. Two people benefited  from this split: one convinced the Armenian people that, no matter  what, they would not consider themselves guilty of everything that  had happened, and the other, after the election failure, declared  there was no prize; those who did not make it to the National  Assembly had lost. The latter then essentially disappeared,  encouraging and funding the hired labor of people living in Armenia  and Russia to conceal their guilt, or rather, their inability, in an  aggressive search for the guilty. In parliament, they talk about  everything, have heated discussions, push each other, go on joint  business trips, have fun in Europe, and give each other bonuses. They  no longer even talk about Artsakh, the Armenians of Artsakh, the  prisoners in Baku, or existential threats. They remain silent about  all of this," Minasyan believes.

He noted that supporters of  both Nikol Pashinyan and Robert  Kocharyan, as well as their puppets, without giving each other a  chance to speak out, are spreading an episode from six years ago,  taken out of context, distorting, manipulating, and lying, claiming  that Minasyan allegedly gave an envelope to Nikol Pashinyan and  funded his team. 

Minasyan concluded by stating that while he takes responsibility for  his personal mistakes, he refuses to engage in the "conspiracies" and  "manipulations" of the two dominant political poles. He warned that  the collaboration between the Kocharyan and Pashinyan camps since  2021 continues to doom the country to new disasters as they "step on  the same old familiar rakes.